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If You Want to Be Creative, Don’t Be Data Driven
Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different perspective. Being a data collector means observing the world with curiosity.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share
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Data-driven design is great at optimizing products with incremental changes, but it could steer you to the top of a local hill rather than the highest peak. Genius-driven design may be the only way to build a revolutionary product, but it usually needs to be supplemented with data-driven refinement.
Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Mike Loukides • Artificial Creativity?
Without creativity we tend to gravitate towards the norms of society. We go to school, get jobs, have 2.4 kids, eat pre-prepared meals, buy cars, dream of retirement, start every year with a resolution that will make the next one somehow different, somehow better. Creativity gives us choice, gives us hope that in some way we can be special, we can
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